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This was gorgeous. I started reading Swann's Way yesterday, and it feels like the softest, warmest blanket on a cold morning when you don't have to get up.
To me, it’s like diving into the most velvet, soft, beautifully constructed memories one could have. It drives me to create such memories and be able to recount them so beautifully one day
I've read Proust 5-6 times...I'm 80😊 I adore these books..I find that I can pick it up, open to any page & become lost within moments...have patience & give yourself to the words & flow....worth it!
You're a philosopher in your own right, and very much at your best when you share your own views. Great video and wonderful sense of humour. Loved it ❤
I love these lectures and find your knowledge of literature and the connections with the philosophical connections with these great writings of literature. LITERATURE AND POETRY, PHILOSOPHY, AND ART, ARE MY FAVORITES . EMMENCE RESPECT FOR YOU SIR. WITH ALL MY LOVE TO YOU. 💓
Great video. Its definitely the kind of book you have to prepare for. I'm almost finished with my third reading. Buddhist themes are present if you have an understanding of that perspective.
Great video as usual. I would definitely participate if you started a Proust reading club. I think Proust is more amenable to a reading club than most authors, because of all the art, music, literature, etc that there is to discuss in his work.
I especially liked your discussion of the olfactory in Proust. It’s our most primordial sense and often unexplored as a means of experiencing the world. I might even say that our nose provides the most direct path into the unconscious.
Your last sentence may very well be certainly true. It is well documented in psychology and psychiatry that one of the quickest and most effective ways to halt one’s panic attack is by using the smell of lavender. Lavender immediately creates a state of calm for most people, certainly for me and my family.
I watched this one! It was gorgeously done. I want a Proust book club! This video was crazy! It was like you’re in my head and the book IS alive. I’m finishing up the Captive tonight and my husband didn’t like seeing reading such big books. He bought Me a Kindle and put the Fugitive on there for me. I have bad carpal tunnel. Thank you as always. This was a work of art in itself.
I really wish you could do an analysis to "the picture of Dorian gray by Oscar wild. I really seek for a profound analysis because, I find the book sooo profound each time I read it. This is my third reading of it and still falling in love with it. Thank you in advance. Hope you could analyse it. 🙂
Wow it was genuinely interesting, above all the 10 signs after reading proust part. It's very profound that intake about Time permanently fleeing while we get absorbed into suffering and how finally everything is petty. Time is consuming us and paradoxically you still have to learn to slow down until almost freezing time to feel, to think about what you really have to do with your limited amount of time, then having slowed down to digest a bigger than yourself purpose you can live at a faster pace, cutting down many things, sacrificing mundane for deeper. Back and forth into different paces, understanding time and it's effect since you cannot control it.
This was very helpful, especially since I only read Swan's Way before giving up. The mistake I made was reading for plot instead of "process." Clarissa by Richardson is supposed to work the same way. Dr. Johnson said to read Clarissa for sentiment, not plot. The same rule applies to Proust. The movement of time did become acute to me even after first volume. I wanted to make some mark in the world, since the novel says, to me anyway, that we all have the same experiences and our existence ends in death.
@@Fiction_Beast - True. No harm knowing the plot before you read. But the former cannot substitute the latter. And certainly, you'll like to share your findings about Proust when you start reading it.
I managed to get the 1st book 'Swann's way' for 15 pence for kindle on Amazon recently, which seemed the greatest bargain of all time. I keep having to tell Alexa to stop reading it every few minutes, as it's too annoying to listen to. There's still around 16 hours left of the book.
1:53 Bergson's philosophy of time can be experienced as either Masculine or Feminine. It appears as Feminine experience in Proust . . . but as Masculine experience in Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom".
I was waiting until I found myself in prison to read Proust, but the bathroom seems like a better idea lol. Great video. You've convinced me to finally start the first volume.
Which of the six books would you recommend? Your knowledge of literature, art, philosophy, religion, history, etc. is just so incredible. God bless you.
I watch you last video of proust i and became complete fell in love of the novel but in my country the volumes are expensive, so i'm still saving money for the books
It's easy: popular edition has seven volumes, you read the first three and the last half of the seventh volume. I read it all, and at book #4 I wondered why he had suddenly lost all his talent, until I finally reached second half of last book and the talent was back.
Thoroughly enjoyed this analyses. I have been thinking of reading this work for some time now. You inspired me to start asap. I was wondering if you could recommend a publication in English?
☠ - Sexist and Racist, you've been reported to the woke headquarters. The Ministry of Love will be in touch shortly. I'm going to try and tackle Proust soon. Found you because of your love of Dostoevsky, your videos area always amazing, thanks for all the time you put into them.
Thanks for the tips mate. If I get a video on how to read classics in general, I will be more happy. Like level of vocabulary needed, things to know etc.
That’s an interesting perspective. Having read many classics, I would say, follow the “Nike advice”: just do it. You don’t learn vocabulary before reading the classics; you learn vocabulary by reading the classics.
I have read Proust, every book In search of lost time ,only I didn't read it right. I didn't understand the novel. And now I'm reading the Expanse, I don't have time to reread Proust. Can I use the this tips while reading the Expanse? It's up to you to decide how much I'm joking when asking that.
I wouldn't put great faith in Bertrand Russell as literary critic but his critique of Bergson and Nietzsche as philosophers was fairly accurate. Also your description of Japanese Culture didn't include any mention of their notion of racial superiority and the appalling atrocities committed during W W 2. Presumably the Tea Ceremony and Flower arranging fit more comfortably into your conception of " authentic " Japanese culture ?
As a sincere Proust fan..I've visited his village twice...walked his walks...sat in the church...visited the house..and so on. I recognise nothing of what you say as important in Proust. His investigation was into Society...what goes on behind the closed doors. His jealousy in love....and so on. Aunt Leonie and the Madeleine dipped in lime blossom tea.The claustrophobic atmosphere in the Salons...the characters...etc etc. And BTW ...it was van Gogh who was influenced by Japanese art...not Monet.
Lol. This a great comment. The fan of Proust as psychologist and the fan of Proust as sociologist. I prefer the psychology. The hundreds of pages about the gossip of the upper class at parties is torture for me. It's hard to reconcile these two aspects of Proust. Your comment indicates that you were unmoved by the physical details of Proust, which is very interesting.
